A cheating husband who was on a secret break with his mistress in Italy has caught coronavirus. The man is now in isolation in the UK with his wife who has no idea how he caught it.

The man is terrified his wife will find out. He has had to confess to medical coordinators in the north of England.

A source told The Sun: 'His case would be funny if it wasn't quite so serious. The man confessed what he'd been up to in Italy, and that his wife has no idea. She thinks he just picked up the disease on his business trip away. Although the patient admitted to medics what had happened, he said nothing would persuade him to name his mistress.'

He is expected to make a full recovery from the infection. Some 71 people have so far been killed by the coronavirus.